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12. an hireling … whose own the sheep are not—who has no property, in them. By this He points to His own peculiar relation to the sheep, the same as His Father's, the great Proprietor and Lord of the flock, who styles Him "My Shepherd, the Man that is My Fellow" (Zec 13:7), and though faithful under-shepherds are so in their Master's interest, that they feel a measure of His own concern ...
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John 10:13. ὁ δὲ μισθωτὸς φεύγει, not, as in John 10:12, ὁ...
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But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own...
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John 10:12-13 Hireling. John 10:14-21 I Am the Good Shepherd. JOHN 10:12-13 12 “But a hireling - he who is not the shepherd - one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches them and scatters the flock. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
John 10:12. ESV He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. NIV The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away.
New King James Version. 12 But a [ a]hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming andleaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. Read full chapter.
But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My ...
John 10:12. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd. That is, who is not the owner of the sheep, though he keeps them, yet only for reward: by whom are meant, not the faithful ministers of the word, who live upon the Gospel, as Christ has ordained, and who are worthy of their reward, and are not to be called hirelings by way of ...
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